From: Frank Barry (frank.james.barry_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2011 - 14:34:21 CST

Any other ideas guys?
Thanks,
Frank

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Gianluca Interlandi
<gianluca_at_u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Ooops, sorry, I see that you already have it istalled. Then it doesn't help
> ;)
>
> G
>
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>
>> Go to the software installer, search for rlwrap and install it:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware
>>
>> As simple as linux can be.
>>
>> Gianluca
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Frank Barry wrote:
>>
>>> I am having problems running vmd 1.9 on a newly installed Ubuntu box.
>>>
>>> $ vmd
>>> rlwrap: No match.
>>>
>>> I found this related posts on the list:
>>>   http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/18099.html
>>>
>>> As in the post, if I comment out the "rlwrap block" in
>>> the start-up script I can get
>>> vmd to open but with quite poor performance (maybe unrelated).
>>> I am quite new to Linux (especially Ubuntu). So any tips on a better way
>>> to proceed would be helpful. Thanks in advance,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>> ## using vmd-1.9.bin.LINUXAMD64.opengl.tar.gz
>>>
>>> $ which csh rlwrap
>>> /bin/csh
>>> /usr/bin/rlwrap
>>>
>>>
>>> $ ./configure
>>> using configure.options: LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL
>>> XINERAMA
>>> XINPUT LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
>>>
>>> $ cd src/
>>>
>>> $ sudo make install
>>> Make sure /usr/local/bin/vmd is in your path.
>>> VMD installation complete.  Enjoy!
>>>
>>> $ vmd
>>> rlwrap: No match.
>>>
>>>
>>> $ head /usr/local/bin/vmd
>>> #!/bin/csh
>>> set defaultvmddir="/usr/local/lib/vmd"
>>>
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux perutz 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011
>>> x86_64
>>> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>
>>> $ lsb_release -a
>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>> Description: Ubuntu 11.10
>>> Release: 11.10
>>> Codename: oneiric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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